About the blogger(s)

About the blogger(s):

Danny Ventura has made the Boston Herald one of the prime sources for schoolboy sports for the past 23 years. In addition to his Sweet 16 football rankings, Ventura also writes a weekly Around the Horn baseball/softball notebook, In the Paint basketball notebook and a No Holds Barred wrestling column. His High School Insider blog was the first of its kind in Massachusetts and remains the go-to high school Web site in the region. He has been honored by the Mass. High School Football Coaches Association as well as the Mass. Basketball Coaches Association. A winner of the prestigious Fred Ebbett Award of Distinction by the MBCA in 2004 as well as the David C. Weidner Media Award from the Agganis Foundation in 2007, Ventura was inducted into the state Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2011. Send all tips to dventura@bostonherald.com

Jim Clark joined the Herald's sports copy desk in 1998 and has been the author of "In The Slot" since 2000. A past winner of the Joel Perlmutter Award from the Mass. State Hockey Coaches Association, he has been covering the high school hockey scene throughout Massachusetts for more than two decades. Clark is a graduate of Oakmont Regional (Ashburnham) and UMass, and it's probably not a coincidence that both schools waited until three years after his departure to start up their hockey programs.